Obituary
RIP DataSpell: A Eulogy for the IDE That Never Needed to Exist
JetBrains kills its DataSpell IDE, admitting it was just PyCharm with a different label.
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pgschema: Terraform-Style Postgres Migrations, With a Catch
The dream of declarative Postgres migrations is here. So is the nightmare of accidental data deletion.
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mise Wants to Run Your Whole Dev Environment. The 'Reproducible' Part Needs an Asterisk
mise puts your languages, env vars, and tasks in one file. We checked whether 'reproducible' holds up.
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Shopify's River Agent Refuses DMs and Works Only in Public Slack
Shopify's River agent refuses DMs. All coding sessions run in public Slack - 100+ engineers can watch in real time.
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Airbnb CEO: 60% of New Code Is AI-Generated. Managers Must Code Now.
Airbnb CEO: 60% of new code AI-generated on a regulated earnings call. Managers expected to code or use agents directly.
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Amazon Gives Up on Its Own AI Coding Tool and Rolls Out Claude Code and Codex Company-Wide
Amazon gave up on Q Developer internally. Claude Code and Codex are now available to all Amazon corporate engineers.
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GitHub cut agentic workflow token costs by 62% - here is how they did it
GitHub cut their agentic workflow costs by 62% by pruning unused MCP tools, pre-downloading data before agents start, and switching models. All repos are public.
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IDE search beats grep for agents, JetBrains' own numbers say
IDE-native search cuts agent tail latency 16% and budget overruns a third in JetBrains' paired-delta benchmark, but wait for external replication.
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JetBrains Sells Qodana on a Bug Cost Number Nobody Can Source
JetBrains sells Qodana on the IBM '100x bug cost' figure. Bossavit and Menzies already traced that citation chain back to nothing.
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GitHub Introduces a Package Manager for Prompts, Supply Chain Headaches Included
'Skills are not verified by GitHub.' It's npm for prompts with a formal hands-off security policy.
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The Linux Kernel's AI Code Policy Is Refreshingly Boring
AI can write the patch, but only a human signs the DCO. Torvalds points out the slop crowd won't self-report anyway.
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Your Framework Already Lost the Race Before the First Byte
TCP slow start gives you 14KB before the first round trip. React's empty shell blows past that before your code even loads.